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PAUL IN A BASKET.
MARrHA's Y me YARD, Mass. Juiv 4.
Many hund eds of Brooklyn Taber.
nacle people and their friends have
made a pilgrimage to this place. It il
one point In an excursion Of six DAYS.
taking in Newport, Nantucket and this
island. The Rev. T. Dewitt 'Calmaee.
d. D.. preached here this morning in
the great camp meeting tabernacle.
Thousands of people were present from
all parts of New England. The music
was conducted by a band.
DIR. Talmage's text was:
"Through a window In . basket was I let
down BY the WALL" 2 Cor. ii, So.
He said:
Sermons on Paul in Jail. Paul on
Mars Hill, Paul in the shipwreck, Paul
before the sanhedrim, Paul before Felix
are plentiful, but in my text We have
Paul in a basket.
Damascus is a city Of white and
glistening architecture, sometimes
called 1.-The eye of the East" some.
times called ga pearl surrounded by
emeralds," at M time distinguished
for swords of tho best material called
Damascus blades, and upholstery of
richest frabric called damasks. A
horseman by the name Of Saul, riding
toward this city, had been thrown from
the saddle. Tho horse had dropped
under II flash from the sky. which at
the same time was 80 bright it blinded
the rider for many days, and, I think,
SO permanently injured his eyesight
that this defect of vision became the
thorn in the flesh he afterward speaks
of. He started for Damascus to
butcher Christians, but after that hard
fall from his horse he was a changed
man and preached Christ in Damascus
till the city was shaken to its founda-
ton.
PAUL UNDER ARREST.
The mayor gives authority for lis
arrest, and the popular cry is: .'Kill
hipI II him!" The cityis surrounded
by high wall. and the gates are
watched by the police lest the Cicllian
preacher escape. Many of the houses
are built on the wall, and their balloon
les projected clear over and lowered
above the gardens outside. TWAS 8
tomary to lower baskets out of these
balconies and pull up fruits and
flowers from the gardens. To this
day visitors at the monastery of Mount
Sinai are lifted and let down in baskets.
Detectives provided around from house
TO house looking for Paul, but his
friends hid him, now in one place, now
in another. He is no coward, as fifty
incidents in his life demonstrate. But
he feels his work is not done yet, and
SO he evades assassination. Ills that
preacher herep" tho fuaming mob
shout at one house door. els that
fanatic here?" the police shout at an
other house door. Sometimes on the
street incognito he passes through a
crowd of clenched fists and sometimes
he secretes himself on the house-top.
At last the infuriate populace get on
sure track of him. They have positive
evidence that he is in the house of one
of the Christians, the balcony of whose
homo reaches over the wall. "Here
he is! Here he isl" The vociferation
and blasphemy and bowling of the
pursuers are at the front door. They
.brcak in. ..Fetch out that Gospelizer,
and let us hang his head on the city
gate. Where is hep" The emergency
vas terrible. Providentially there was
. n good stout basket in the house.
Paul's friends fasten a rope to the bas'
ket. Paul steps into it. The basket il
lifted to the edge of the balcony on th.
wall, and then while Paul holds on te
the rope with both hands his friend.
lower away, carefully and cautiously
slowly but surely, further down and
further down, until the basket strike!
the earth and the apostle steps out ant
afoot, and alone starts out on tina
famous missionary tour, the story o
which has astonised earth and heaven
Appropriate entry in Paul's diary o
travels: Through window in q bas
ket was l let down by the wall"
GREAT RESULTS FROM SMALL THINGS
Observe, first, On what a slender ten
ure great results hang. The ropemake
who twisted that cord fastened to tn
lowering basket never knew how mucI
would depend upon the strength of IL
How il it had been broken and th
apostles life had been dashed out
What would have become Of the Chris
tian church, All that magnificent mil
sionary work in Pamphilia, Cappade
cha, Galatia, Macedonia, would neve
h2Re been accomplished. All his wri
lth.t make up SO indispensable an
enchanting q part of the New Test,
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